Why must we learn ... the unknown?

Human knowledge can be divided into two forms that exist in tandem: the known and the unknown. The feudal education lasted for thousands of years, teaching people to learn and believe in the known but the more and more people realized they had to learn the known to be able to deal with the unknowns that were hanging on. his head and will at some point come to the state of understanding the nature of the unknown.

Then the unknown will become the known and man will have to face other unknown systems again. The more the history moves, the more the unknown, the more, the more complex. And history proves that those who are conscious of understanding the "unknown" are always more developed than those who just believe in the known.

The more the history moves, the more the unknown, the more, the more complex.

In 1529, when Piazarro was conferred by the Spanish state as general and when the general brought 180 men to attack the Inca Empire (Peru), what did the Incas know about their invaders? They did not know about Piazarro themselves, nor did they know about the invading ships and they were not aware to know that the other Spanish, Cortes, had destroyed the Aztec empire. America with me.

The Inca worldview was simply encapsulated in the locality in which they lived, developed and made gold vaults - an attractive bait for colonialists. They think their kingdom is all the world.

Therefore, with just a few tricks, Piazarro easily brought King Inca into his siege. The king was named Atahualpa - the sun god of the Incas but the sun god with 6,000 local troops was captured by several hundred Spaniards with more modern weapons. But yet, when Atahualpa offered a ransom rumored to be physically a floor full of gold, he later died even more tragically. Because on the one hand, Piazarro accepted the offer but received the ransom, he still casually threw Atahualpa on the funeral pyre after a trial of an injustice by himself playing the role of a judge. The Inca Empire and the last king Atahualpa were annihilated for simply not having the skill to deal with . an invading race that he had never known before.

In fact, if they had just tried to get their thoughts out of their territory for a bit, they certainly wouldn't have been so cruelly destroyed. Because 10 years ago, a similar thing happened in the Aztec empire (Mexico) - one of their American neighbors.

10 years ago, a Spanish captain named Cortes landed on the beach of today's city of Vera Curz. And that was the first time the Aztec Aborigines saw a different kind of . different person. Like that person is a devil or a god? Why does it look like he has metal trees that produce thunder? Why did it look like that person could ride in the ocean with something that took a long time before they could vaguely understand the fleet of invading boats?

The other Spaniards are too and strange. So, instead of seeking to prevent the landings of this strange breed, the Aztecs sought to compromise. They innocently took Cortes all the way to his capital to meet the emperor Montezuma . They do not know that just waiting for Cortes can order the soldiers to use steel weapons to fight Montezuma's guards and capture the good host. That was the first departure for the collapse of the Aztec empire later.

Thus, the formula Cortes used to invade Aztec is the same formula that 10 years later Piazarro used to invade Inca. But, the next victim did not know the story of the previous victim so he died just like the previous victim. Tragedy and bloody death.

In fact, before that, if he had to go beyond his cognitive framework to find out, the "victim first" - the Aztecs would know that a series of islands in the Caribbean were also captured in the same way. Just that way - just that recipe - just that size and vision, the Spanish and Portuguese colonists easily subdued the "unknown" in the new world.

But not only the Aboriginal people like Aztec or Inca, even the vast empires in Asia at that time suffered the tragedy of this " unknown" . Strictly speaking, they are confident that they already know, that they are self-confident - that heaven should attribute all the quintessence and all factors other than oneself to be barbaric.

Must learn the known so as not to be troubled in the face of the unknown is so.

So these new empires "secluded seclusion" , closed to the world to self-satisfaction but essentially poisoned the future of our race. Because not long after that, when touched and torn by the European colonists, they were quickly broken and it took a long time to understand that compared to Europe, I had lost a century of civilization. .

European visions are expressed in ocean expeditions to explore, discover and conquer the unknowns that originated from the great expedition of Captain Columbus, but from a certain angle. Columbus himself was also suffering from this "unknown" tragedy. Because at the 2 am moment on October 12, 1492, when his crew suddenly saw an island and shouted "land!" Columbus believed it was an island in East Asia.

Because the world maps drawn in Europe only stopped in East Asia - where the Europeans at that time believed to be the farthest to me. Columbus believed in the existing maps - believing in the knowledge he had until he closed his eyes and did not know that he (and no one else) had found the new world.

In his day, Columbus couldn't think (or dare not think) of a whole new land, never before seen on maps. It took nearly 10 years for an Italian sailor, Amerigo Vespucci , to prove this, that the island in Columbus's view was not East Asia but the Americas and this created a cognitive hinged tremor. Man: The world has many things we never knew before ! Not being nailed by what we already know, not bound by what we already know, dare to open a horizon to explore and discover what we don't know, that's the law of success that we can learned from the overlapping layers of history's movements.

And to understand that rule is to return to the questions of reality: How much of the unknown continues to fall on humanity? In the early 20th century, mathematician Alan Turing laid the first foundation for modern computer science and he probably did not expect that by the end of the 20th century, through computers, the Internet was popularized worldwide. And he never expected that until the early years of the 21st century, a series of automation and artificial intelligence issues led mankind into a whole new era of technology.

It is mankind who makes technology but it is technology that has backwardly impacted human life, beyond all previous human imagination. About 20 years ago, who dared to believe that social networks could explode and create a series of changes in social structure - the structure of human soul today? And who would dare to believe that 20 years later, humans will find the most appropriate way to deal with "great friend" but also "great monster" named this social network?

Obviously, we cannot accurately predict the future, but we must find ways to deal with the "unknowns" that can come upon us at any given time. future. The unknown can lie in a whole new paradigm of knowledge, which requires entirely new cognitive and behavioral skills, shattering the structure that has been in the past.

Therefore, from an educational or cultural perspective, the study of the known, the knowledge of the known, the fascination with the known is not just for knowing the known (even if it is very important) but must also aim to find new skills to be able to deal with new issues - things we have never known before.